With the massively popular demand, the group has added additional dates to their run to kick off the new year, in addition to dropping a brand new track available for free download. Check out the updated tour schedule and link to the previously unreleased new song below!

This new music has been a long time coming, but frontman Chris Carrabba says they're close to finishing a new album.

“I have spent the last year and a half in the studio and we’re very close to finishing a new album,” Carrabba says. “I’m very excited about these new songs and the album that we’re making. However, in a very real sense I feel like I can’t make a record without my fans being part of the process. There’s no substitute for the kind of immediate feedback that I get from the crowd when I play new songs."

On their upcoming tour, Carrabba says he's excited to play a mix of old and new—and erase the division between band and fans while they're at it.

“While I love the summer amphitheater experience and playing the old favorites to festival crowds, the place where I have always felt the purest connection with my audience has been in the clubs that I came up in. The venues where I could walk among the crowd and get to know them, the places where we erased the division between the band and the fans. And don’t worry, while I am so excited to share with you some of what to expect from Dashboard Confessional in the year to come, we will absolutely still play the favorites… I hope we all discover some new favorites along the way.”